Our 29 raters rated 145 movies a total of 856
times in 2001. That compares to 24 raters rating
154 movies 734 times last year. Seventy-seven movies were rated
at least 5 times compared
with 54 the year before. A Beautiful Mind was rated the most
times (22) and had the highest ratings
with an average of 93.9. Last year Erin Brockovich was rated
the most times (19) and Finding Forrester
had the highest average rating of 92.3. Prior winners were: 1999
South Park: Bigger & Longer 9
critics for a 93.3 average, 1988 Patch Adams 8 raters for 95.4 average,
1997 Rainmaker 6 critics
saw for 91 average, 1996 Sling Blade 3 critics for 90 average, and
1995 Braveheart 4 for 92 average.
We had 22 raters on the honor roll as they all rated
at least 20 movies. That compares with 13
last year. A Beautiful Mind was 10 raters top movie and 3 more
had them their 2nd highest rated movie.
Nineteen of the 22 raters had A Beautiful Mind in their top 5.
Majestic was the only other movie rated
1st by more than 1 rater. Majestic was rated 1st by three raters.
It took 38 ratings to reach the top ten raters
for 2001. In 2000 it only took 33 ratings. Last
year we had five raters that rated at least 50 movies compared with
2 this year.
See below for the top 20 movies based on times
seen and average rating, the 10 worst movies
of the year, all honor roll raters top 5 and top ten raters for 2001.
Thanks to all the raters that rated movies
in 2001.

TOP
20 MOVIES BASED ON TIMES SEEN
TOP 20 MOVIES BASED ON AVG RATING

#

AVG

#

AVG

PL

TITLE

RATING

RATING

PL

TITLE

RATING

RATING

1

Beautiful Mind, A

22

93.9

1

Beautiful Mind, A

22

93.9

2

Pearl Harbor

21

85.5

2

Angel Eyes

5

91.0

3

America's Sweethearts

17

85.8

3

I am Sam

6

90.5

3

Shrek

17

86.0

4

Majestic

7

90.1

5

Legally Blonde

16

83.8

5

Black Hawk Down

10

89.8

5

Oceans Eleven

16

88.8

6

Rock Star

9

89.6

7

Mexican, The

15

81.1

7

Monsters, Inc.

8

88.9

8

American Pie 2

14

87.5

8

Oceans Eleven

16

88.8

8

Bridget Jones's Diary

14

87.8

9

Last Castle

6

88.7

8

Wedding Planner, The

14

83.9

9

Life as a House

6

88.7

11

Along Came a Spider

13

88.5

11

Moulin Rouge

12

88.7

11

Hannibal

13

86.6

12

Serendipity

8

88.6

11

Score, The

13

88.5

13

Score, The

13

88.5

11

Vanilla Sky

13

79.7

13

Along Came a Spider

13

88.5

15

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

12

84.0

15

Enemy at the Gates

8

88.4

15

Blow

12

87.8

15

Spy Game

8

88.4

15

Lord of the Rings

12

81.8

17

Sweet November

8

88.3

15

Memento

12

87.9

18

Zoolander

5

88.2

15

Moulin Rouge

12

88.7

19

Thirteen Days

11

88.1

20

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

11

86.0

20

Memento

12

87.9

20

Someone Like You

11

84.8

20

Thirteen Days

11

88.1

TEN WORST MOVIES OF THE YEAR PER

RATING OF FIVE ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEES

OUR RATERS - (SEEN AT LEAST 5 TIMES)

#

AVG

#

AVG

PL

TITLE

RATING

RATING

PL

TITLE

RATING

RATING

1

3000 Miles to Graceland

7

70.6

1

Beautiful Mind, A

22

93.9

2

Driven

6

74.8

2

Moulin Rouge

12

88.7

3

Cats and Dogs

8

75.8

3

In the Bedroom

8

87.6

4

Joe Dirt

5

76.0

4

Gosford Park

5

85.0

5

Saving Silverman

7

77.7

5

Lord of the Rings

12

81.8

6

Animal, The

7

77.9

7

Mummy Returns, The

10

79.3

8

Vanilla Sky

13

79.7

9

Tailor of Panama, The

6

80.8

10

Mexican, The

15

81.1

TOP FIVE MOVIES BY ALL 21 RATERS (HONOR ROLL) THAT
SAW AT LEAST 20 MOVIES: (# rated in parenthesis)